Who has best pastels?

[The Serpent Merchant]

Pretty!

Thanks I spent an entire month searching for 1.1 pastels before I settlen on these two. I hope they age well.

[Salamander Rising]

Thanks I spent an entire month searching for 1.1 pastels before I settlen on these two. I hope they age well.

Did you get the usual Kobylka paperwork with your snakes?

It will say what the parents were and I'm sure if you asked Justin, he would try to provide photos of their parents so you'll know what to expect from them.

The papers for my 100% Het for Clown came with him and he went the extra mile to track down the papers for the Bumblebee.

He's really a nice, cooperative man.

[The Serpent Merchant]

Did you get the usual Kobylka paperwork with your snakes?

It will say what the parents were and I'm sure if you asked Justin, he would try to provide photos of their parents so you'll know what to expect from them.

The papers for my 100% Het for Clown came with him and he went the extra mile to track down the papers for the Bumblebee.

He's really a nice, cooperative man.

Yes I did get the paperwork from Justin, and the parents looked great, but they weren't just pastels. All 4 parents (my 2 are from different clutches) are multigene animals so it's hard to say for sure.

And I 100% agree Justin is great.

[Kenj620]

This is my super at 483g.

Ive always loved the bright color on her. She is starting to get dirtier as she ages, but still holding the bright yellow.


this is her at around 800g

I was told she is a Brian Sharp line, but when I emailed Brian Sharp and asked about his pastels he told me that he works with blondes.

[John1982]

I also think your best bet at a great pastel is hand picking in person. I got my girl from morphmakers in 2008 and she's turned out nice in my opinion. It was kind of a crap shoot because they had a few pastel girls in shed but she was still my first choice and I haven't regretted it since seeing her after that first shed.

~400 grams


The only adult pictures I have of her are breeding ones, sorry. They do at least show her colors pretty well next to other snakes. Here she is a couple years later at ~1200 grams with a spider mate.


Here's a more current(though crappy) shot of her with a fire male, she's about 1500 grams now and though a tad bit darker has maintained her colors well.

[Salamander Rising]

Yes I did get the paperwork from Justin, and the parents looked great, but they weren't just pastels. All 4 parents (my 2 are from different clutches) are multigene animals so it's hard to say for sure.

And I 100% agree Justin is great.

Drat.

There goes my bright idea for a simple solution.....

[Salamander Rising]

This is my super at 483g.

Ive always loved the bright color on her. She is starting to get dirtier as she ages, but still holding the bright yellow.


this is her at around 800g

I was told she is a Brian Sharp line, but when I emailed Brian Sharp and asked about his pastels he told me that he works with blondes.

She's a beauty!

[meowmeowkazoo]

My male is a "Joliff line" Pastel and this is him at well over 2 years old, probably closer to 3:



I've never seen a "Joliff" website so I don't know where you would get one.

The female I recently bought has a wild-caught grandfather who kept his bright yellow until the day he died.

This is her at 5 months:



With every shed, she gets yellower and brighter.

I'm hoping that it's a trend she'll maintain for a long time since she's the intended "bride" of the Joliff male because they should produce some really nice supers and pastels.

Those two are gorgeous!

[Freakie_frog]

Without a doubt the most consistently awesome Pastel's are produced by Robin Abernathy at Robin's nest reptiles..She produces the only pastels I'll pay money for.

[python_addict]

This guy is from Mark Petros